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Thanks to overtime pay already averaging $5,500 each this year, nearly every one of the 298 staff at the Windsor fire department is assured a spot on the 2016 sunshine list of public sector workers who earn $100,000 per year.

A leopard that changes its spots? The owners of the Ambassador Bridge are suddenly getting all contrite and playing friendly -- in a most out-of-character fashion — with one of the host cities of the vital trade span.

If we are to believe the press reports, millions of adult Canadians made the shocking discovery last week that governments are willing to try to bribe them with their own money. Next thing you know they’ll find out storks don’t deliver babies.